Scientists have known for nearly a century that the universe is expanding, but the exact rate of that expansion is still uncertain. This ongoing debate has even raised questions about the standard model of cosmology. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), and the Max Planck Institutes MPA and…
A major new study published in Nature Health has found a strong connection between environmental exposure to agricultural pesticides and an increased risk of cancer. By combining environmental monitoring, national cancer registry data, and biological research, scientists from the IRD, Institut Pasteur, University of Toulouse, and the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) in Peru…
The gunman who sprinted through a security checkpoint on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton believed that the Secret Service was poorly prepared to guard top administration officials against him, according to writing he left behind. Agents, in turn, stopped him in a matter of seconds. The episode raised fresh questions about whether the Secret…
The Cage Sunday, 9pm, BBC One For his stress-inducing follow-up to gritty police drama The Responder, cop turned screenwriter Tony Schumacher shifts his focus to a chintzy Liverpool casino. Sheridan Smith and Michael Socha star as workers who realise they are both recklessly skimming from the business. She is a stressed single mum trying to…
Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whose severely decomposed body was discovered last fall in the trunk of the singer D4vd’s car, died in a homicide involving “multiple penetrating injuries,” according to a report released Wednesday by the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner. In the 26-page report, the office said the body had…
Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward, causing the universe to balloon faster and faster and threatening to one day rip apart everything within it, from clusters of galaxies to particles inside atoms. Astronomers have taken on the behemoth task of figuring…
